On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Satoshi Nagayasu <sn...@uptime.jp> wrote: > (1) Fix pgstatindex arguments to work same as pgstattuple. > > As the document describes, pgstattuple accepts 'schema.table' > expression and oid of the table, but pgstatindex doesn't. > (because I didn't add that when I created pgstatindex...) > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/pgstattuple.html > > So, I'd like to change pgstatindex arguments to allow > schema name and oid. > > Does it make sense?
Not sure. It seems nice, but it's also a backward-compatibility break. So I don't know. > (2) Enhance pgstattuple/pgstatindex to allow block sampling. > > Now, we have large tables and indexes in PostgreSQL, and these are > growing day by day. > > pgstattuple and pgstatindex are both very important to keep database > performance well, but doing full-scans on large tables and indexes > would generate big performance impact. > > So, now I think pgstattuple and pgstatindex should support > 'block sampling' to collect block statistics with avoiding full-scans. > > With this block sampling feature, pgstattuple/pgstatindex would be > able to collect block statistics from 1~10% of the blocks in the > table/index if the table/index is large (maybe 10GB or more). Now that sounds really nice. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers